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Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
13th May, 2024 09:27:49 AM

Helpful Hallucination for the general concept. Covers the full range from proper "you probably seek medical help if this keeps happening" hallucinations to purely imagined figures representing internal dialogues and intrusive thoughts

Talking to the Dead if the other person is deceased and we're not in "explicitly literal ghost" territory (This one has a lot of inherent Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane even in the most grounded works)

Surrogate Soliloquy if they use a prop or stand-in as the other person (Sometimes livened up by having a picture imagined to life or the owner of an item appear after the conversation begins.)

Living Memory if the other has more agency/substance, like the lingering echo of a Mental Fusion or the psychic impression of the author left in a Great Big Book of Everything. The visual aspect can be more literal here- say, the Cyber Ninja has a nanotech tattoo with an AI simulacrum of his sensei that he occasionally consults, even knowing that it's just a pale Virtual Ghost from a low-resolution Brain Upload.

Edited by Scorpion451
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